You can use a limited set of both HTML and BBCODE tags to add emphasis to certain words, or just to make your post more pleasing to the eye.

Text formatting with BBCODE:BBCODE uses square brackets to enclose the tags. There must be an opening tag and a closing tag for the formatting to display properly. Here are examples showing which tags are available and how to use them.

[b]Bold Text[/b]Will display like this:Bold Text

[u]Underlined Text[/u]Will display like this:Underlined Text

[d]Deleted Text[/d]Will display like this:Deleted Text

[i]Italic Text[/i]Will display like this:Italic Text

[quote]Quoted Text[/quote]Will display like this:Quote:

Quoted Text

Tags can also be nested to use more than one type of formatting. Please note how the tags are paired in the example below.

You can also change the text color. To do this you have to know the hexadecimal number for the color you wish to use, or use one of the editors that allow you to select the text color. Here are a few examples:

There are a variety of fonts that are available too.Here are some of the available fonts:

Ariel Font (Default Font)

Courier Font

Georgia Font

Helvetica Font

Impact Font

Haettenschweiler Font

Comic Sans Ms Font

Courier New Font

Tahoma Font

Times New Roman Font

MS Serif Font

To change the text font use the tags below, but replace "font name" with the name of the font you wish to use.

[font=font name]Text you wish to have in this font[/font]

You can also post pictures with BBCODE. Keep in mind that any pictures you use should be your own work, in the public domain (i.e. the copyright has expired), or used with the explicit permission of the copyright holder(s).

[img]http://gorchronicles.com/uploads/extgallery/public-photo/thumb/thumb_locking-joint2_5709ff.gif[/img]Will show this image:

Another tag set is for use with url addresses. You don't have to use these tags if you just want to type in a web site address. They are more for creating links from other text. For instance...

[url=http://gorchronicles.com]This is a link to John Norman's Chronicles of Gor[/url]

The last BBCODE tag I'll show you is the [code]...[/code] tag set. This set of tags creates a box around the text between the tags in much the same way the [quote]...[/quote] tags do, but it allows you to display the HTML codes and spaces between them without multiple spaces being condensed or the HTML tags being converted to formatted text. This can be useful for maintaining paragraph tabs when quoting passages from the books. Which leads us to...

Text formatting with HTML:HTML uses greater and less than characters to enclose the tags. There usually must be an opening tag and closing tag for the formatting to display properly, but there are a few exceptions. HTML will allow you to do fancier formatting, but it is also more complicated to use than BBCODE. Here are examples showing some of the HTML tags that are available and how to use them.

You can perform much the same formatting that you can with BBCODE. For instance, bold, italic, underlined, and deleted text:

<b>Bold Text</b>
Four spaces in front of <i>Italic Text</i>
Eight spaces in front of <u>Underlined Text</u>
Twelve spaces in front of <del>Deleted Text</del>

Will display like this. Note how the spaces have been condensed now that the [code]...[/code] tags have been removed:

Bold Text Four spaces in front of Italic Text Eight spaces in front of Underlined Text Twelve spaces in front of Deleted Text

HTML tags can also be nested:

<b><u><i>Bold Underlined Italic Text</i></u></b>

Displays this way:

Bold Underlined Italic Text

Another way to maintain multiple spaces and tab characters when posting is to use the HTML preformatted text tags. They are used like this:

<pre>This is preformatted text. The six spaces in front of this line will be maintained. As will the twelve spaces at the start of this line.</pre>

And will display this way in your post:

This is preformatted text. The six spaces in front of this line will be maintained. As will the twelve spaces at the start of this line.

Text color can be changed too. Note that the HTML tags are more complicated than the comparable BBCODE tags:

And, of course, the font face can be changed as well. To change the font use the format below, but replace "font name" with the name of the font you wish to use. Please note that the font name must be enclosed by quotes as shown in the example below.

<font face="font name">Text in the font you want.</font>

As an example:
<font face="times new roman">This text is in Times New Roman font</font>

Gives you this:

This text is in Times New Roman font

With HTML formatting you can make text center justified, right justified, or block justified:

<dl><dt>First Dictionary Term</dt>
<dd>First definition for the dictionary term above</dd>
<dd>Second definition for the dictionary term above</dd>
<dt>Second Dictionary Term</dt>
<dd>First definition for the dictionary term above</dd>
<dd>Second definition for the dictionary term above</dd></dl>

First Dictionary Term

First definition for the dictionary term above

Second definition for the dictionary term above

Second Dictionary Term

First definition for the dictionary term above

Second definition for the dictionary term above

...Superscripts and Subscripts...:

This text has <sup>superscripted text/sup> and <sub>subscripted text</sub> within it.

This text has superscripted text and subscripted text within it.

...Indented text...:

The text below is indented.
<blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">This text is indented.
It will stay indented
until the feature is turned off.</blockquote>
The text is no longer indented.

The text below is indented.

This text is indented.It will stay indenteduntil the feature is turned off.

The text is no longer indented.

...Or you can even insert a horizontal line. Note that this is one of those exceptions I mentioned to needing open and closing tags:

<hr />

There are plenty of other things that can be done with HTML, including the creation of tables, buttons, etc. - but we can't cover them all here. The BBCODE and HTML codes above should give you a good start.

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